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| Notes for Dora Mabel WEYMOUTH |
| 65Dora Mabel Weymouth died of an enlarged heart and heart failure. She was buried in Highland Cemetery, Havre, MT. From the Havre Daily News: MRS. L. HALVERSON IS LAID TO REST The funeral services for the late Mrs. L. Halverson were held at the Holland and Bonine funeral home at 2 p.m. Thursday. The Reverend Martin Trygstad officiated. Pallbearers were Maurice Wright, Jim Pedersen, Al Lucke, Jr., George Atkinson, Harry Short and Leslie Davidon [sic]. Burial was at the Highland cemetery. Dora Mabel Halverson was born April 15, 1881 in St. James, Minn., the daughter of Judson A. Weymouth and Lydia E. (Keech). She was married 39 years ago on October 29 at St. James to Louis Halverson. They lived at Waterton, S.D., for a year, then returning to St James where a daughter, Helen (Mrs. Emil DonTigny) and a son Gordon, were born. They came to Montana in 1914, Mr. Halverson having preceded the family by a year. A daughter, Dorothy, and another girl, Virginia who died in 1919 in infancy were born here. Mrs. Halverson was a member of the Presbyterian church and choir and of the Degree of Honor. She is survived in addition to her husband and children by her mother, Mrs. A.J. Weymouth of Turtle River, Minn., and a sister, Mrs. W.W. Winch of the same place, and by a brother, Alvin in California. |
| Notes for Ludwig Haugen (Spouse 1) |
| 65From the journals of Dorothy Halverson: "Louis Halverson (born Ludwig Haugen) was born and lived in Alexandria, Minnesota. He moved to St. James, Minnesota as a child and later worked as a cigar maker there. His parents, Thorsten and Anna Haugen came from Norway to Minnesota. Louis and Ted were the only ones to move to Montana. After Louis married Dora Mabel Weymouth, they moved to Havre in 1913 because of Louis' asthma. Ted was in Havre first and later lived with Louis and Dora. Louis started his own cigar factory in town and was in business with a man named Charlie Crowley. Louis served as Justice of the Peace for 16 years. He enjoyed music and played alto horn in "Havre's Cowboy Band." He also played the violin in the orchestra. "In 1912, there was a big land boom in Montana because of the Great Northern Railroad being built there. Havre was in a boom time -- homesteads were filed on all along the HiLine. Havre had a lot of saloons and cigar making was a prosperous business. At that time, all cigars were hand made and were in great demand and cigarettes unheard of in the West --except the handrolled Bull Durhams. Dad and Floyd Hall came to Havre and started a cigar shop in partnership. My Uncle Ted who was unmarried came with them as a cigar maker. Havre was a wild cow town with 18 saloons on main street. Mother, Helen and Gordon came in the spring of 1913. Helen was 9 and Gordon was 7. Havre was very different from the town of St. James, Minn., where they had been born. Their home town had existed for a long time and had grass and trees and well-established homes and schools. "The countryside had lakes and flowers and churches. And they had grandpas and grandmas and cousins and aunts and uncles and many friends and playmates. Havre was a new town experiencing sudden growth from the roots of a cow camp. The Great Northern railroad was building a railway line across Montana and Havre's location had been chosen as a division point. Many people had moved here and more were coming to work for the railroad and provide all the services a town needs -- stores, barber shops, banks, homes, blacksmith shops, coal mines, ice houses, a creamery, a brewery, hotels. Montana was a barren prairie -- not at all like the wooded country of Minnesota. The Homestead Act had been passed and people came who wanted to start farms and ranches, starting with 160 acres of land, free, if they would live on it for six months and establish a home there. It was quite a challenge in a country with no trees -- at least in this part of the state. And long, cold winters, and not too much rain in the summer. But all these people had the same challenge, and were from various parts of the states east of the Mississippi. They made friends quickly and established their homes and shared their joys and sorrows with each other. "They found a small house on the corner of 6th Ave. and 2nd St. We always referred to it in later years as "the little brown house." That's where I was born, at 3 a.m. on January 18, 1915 -- Dr. J.S. Almas was the doctor, and he was my doctor until his death in 1936. He told Helen and Gordon he had found me in Bull Hook and all the kids in the neighborhood searched that dry creek for days, looking for babies. Bull Hook was a dry creek most of the time. It ran right through the center of town. In fact, the town was originally called "Bullhook" but when the railroad came, they didn't like the name so they chose the name Havre, as suggested by Simon Pepin, one of the town's founders. His hometown was LeHavre, France. Sometimes Bullhook had a little water in it, if we had rain. But if we had heavy snow and had a sudden chinook wind, which melts snow in a few hours, the "dry creek" would fill and overflow its banks and flood the entire town. "In 1917, the United States entered the war that was raging in Europe -- a long way from Montana, but it had as much effect here as anywhere. Dad's brother Ted enlisted and was eventually sent to France. He came back in 1919 and was a great hero to me. In 1919 the Volstead Act was passed by Congress. This closed all the saloons and had a direct effect on the cigar business that was our support and while Dad kept making cigars, machines that made cigars finally took over the industry and hand-rolled cigars became a thing of the past. Our income was limited but we got by and rolled through the Roaring Twenties into the Depression of the 30s." He was married to Dora Mabel Weymouth in Oct 1901 in St. James, MN. |
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